A lioness were out one day a hunting

Or just out taking the air of the Samburu

game park

When she came a cross an orphaned oryx antelope

Now you would have thought she'd think ''lunch''!

But NO , she thought ''pore baby''

She did her best to look after the baby oryx

She were coniferous the antelope a vegetarian

The two just do not mix as a rule of nature do they?

The lioness went hungry as she had no milk so did the

Antelope

The locals had herd of story's , but just that story's told

Over camp fires , told to children , adults laughed , children

giggled at such absurd story's dating back to their anseters

Till they were taken by truck to see for them selfs

Their before them were the lioness with her adopted antelope

Both so thin, but the lioness was not concerned by her hunger

Later , she fell a sleep a lion came across them both ,

He killed and eat the baby oryx

She a woke saw what had happened , she roared out her grief

Her pain , her anger

The lioness mourned the death of her charge , that she had loved


A while later she adopted four more orphaned oryx ,

One were returned to mum , what happened to the lioness

A mystery of nature.


Ken D Williams (THE DYSLEXIC POET)


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